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Arabistan (other)
Arabistan or Arabestan may refer to: *Khuzestan, a province of Iran that was also known as Arabistan * Saudi Arabia in the Persian and Turkish languages *the Arabian Peninsula *an autonomous province in the Ottoman Empire ruled by Fakhr-al-Din II See also *Arab (other) *Arabia (other) Arabia may refer to: Geography *The Arabian Peninsula *Saudi Arabia, the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula *Arabia Deserta, the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula in modern-day Saudi Arabia * Arabia Felix, modern-day Yemen and southw ... * Arabian (other) {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khuzestan
Khuzestan Province (also spelled Xuzestan; fa, استان خوزستان ''Ostān-e Xūzestān'') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and it covers an area of . Since 2014, it has been part of Iran's Region 4. Historically, one of the most important regions of the Ancient Near East, Khuzestan is what historians refer to as ancient Elam, whose capital was in Susa. The Achaemenid Old Persian term for Elam was ''Hujiyā'' when they conquered it from the Elamites, which is present in the modern name. Khuzestan, meaning "the Land of the Khuz", refers to the original inhabitants of this province, the "Susian" people (Old Persian "Huza" or ''Huja'', as in the inscription at the tomb of Darius the Great at Naqsh-e Rostam). They are the Shushan of the Hebrew sources where they are recorded as "Hauja" or "Huja". In Middle Persian, the term evolves into "Khuz" and "Kuzi". The pre-Islamic Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Arab world, and the largest in Western Asia and the Middle East. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. Bahrain is an island country off the east coast. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland, steppe, and mountains. Its capital and largest city is Riyadh. The country is home to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. Pre-Islamic Arabia, the territory that constitutes modern-day Saudi Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. At , the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen, as well as the southern portions of Iraq and Jordan. The largest of these is Saudi Arabia. In the classical era, the southern portions of modern-day Syria, Jordan, and the Sinai Peninsula were also considered parts of Arabia (see Arabia Petraea). The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and southwest, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the northeast, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian Sea and the Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fakhr-al-Din II
Fakhr al-Din ibn Qurqumaz Ma'n ( ar, فَخْر ٱلدِّين بِن قُرْقُمَاز مَعْن, Fakhr al-Dīn ibn Qurqumaz Maʿn; – March or April 1635), commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II ( ar, فخر الدين الثاني, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Thānī), was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of the Levant from the 1620s to 1633. For uniting modern Lebanon's constituent parts and communities, especially the Druze and the Maronites, under a single authority for the first time in history, he is generally regarded as the country's founder. Although he ruled in the name of the Ottomans, he acted with considerable autonomy and developed close ties with European powers in defiance of the Ottoman imperial government. Fakhr al-Din succeeded his father as the emir of the Chouf mountains in 1591. He was appointed over the sanjaks (districts) of Sidon-Beirut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab (other)
An Arab is a member of the Arabic speaking nations in the Middle East and North Africa. It can also refer to someone who has citizenship of another country but is of Arab descent. Arab, Arabic, Ərəb or Arap may also refer to: Language and writing * Arab (etymology) * Arabic alphabet ** Arabic (Unicode block) * Arabic language ** Varieties of Arabic * Arabic numerals * Arabic script Places Azerbaijan * Ərəb, Agdash, Azerbaijan * Ərəb, Khachmaz, Azerbaijan * Ərəb, Masally, Azerbaijan * Ərəb Qubalı, Azerbaijan * Ərəb Yengicə, Azerbaijan Iran * Arab, Iran, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran * Arab, Firuzabad, a village in Fars Province. Iran * Arab, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran United States *Arab, Alabama, United States *Arab, Missouri, United States People * Arap, a clan of the Somali Isaaq clan family * Arab (born ''Abrahim Mustafa''), an American rapper, a member of S.O.D. Money Gang Inc. alongside ''Soulja Boy'' and ''J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabia (other)
Arabia may refer to: Geography *The Arabian Peninsula *Saudi Arabia, the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula *Arabia Deserta, the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula in modern-day Saudi Arabia * Arabia Felix, modern-day Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia *Arabia Petraea, a Roman province *Arabia, Finland, a neighbourhood of Helsinki *Arabia, Indiana, a community in the United States * Arabia, Nebraska, a community in the United States * Arabia (satrapy), a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire and later of the Sassanid Empire, by the name of Arabistan *The Arab world People * Arabia (daughter of Justin II), the daughter of Byzantine emperor Justin II (r. 565–578) and his empress Sophia Language *A romanized spelling of ''`Arabiyya'' = Arabic Astronomy * 1157 Arabia, an asteroid * Arabia Terra, a region of Mars' northern hemisphere * Arabia quadrangle, one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey Astrogeology Researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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